Sadly I am too proletarian to have anything like a first-hand opinion. As a place to visit, though, Cambridge beats Oxford. The latter is a kind of tourist-infested tat-town. (View Post)

There was always a heavy theatrical air with Blair. He played sincere so well, he even convinced himself. (View Post)

I started a new job a month or so ago so I haven’t had much time for PB or reading, but I am v much enjoying the first Rick Perlstein book in his growing chronology of US Conservatism. One of things … (View Post)

The last five PMs went to Oxford. The last Cambridge graduate was Stanley Baldwin. (View Post)

I get very bored by identity politics. As far as I’m concerned, much of it is convenient obfuscation to mask underlying and under-discussed class inequality. (View Post)